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Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood is a researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, where he focuses on federal and provincial climate change policy in Canada.
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Is Carney’s climate credibility crumbling?
The following is a re-print of the October 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by 196 countries amid a wave of global urgency to confront the defining crisis of our time—climate change.…
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Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election
With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.
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Reconciliation on the altar of extractive nationalism
The following is a re-print of the September 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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A eulogy for 1.5 degrees
The following is a re-print of the August 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Carney’s initial “major projects” list disappoints. Where’s the industrial strategy?
The initial tranche of nation-building projects selected by the Carney government is as disappointing as it is predictable—but it is a failure more for what…
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The fall parliamentary session is going to be one to watch
When parliament comes back into session on September 15, the newly elected federal government is going to try to move swiftly to pass its legislative…
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Is the law the last bastion of climate action?
The following is a re-print of the July 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Now is the right time for green industrial strategy
The following is a re-print of the June 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Who is Canada’s “climate king”?
The following is a re-print of the May 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Canada’s most expensive election promise was climate inaction
The following is a re-print of the April 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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King Charles’ speech from the throne is a harbinger of a rightward shift
For the first time since 1977, and the third time ever, the monarch of the British empire appeared before Canada’s parliament to read the speech…
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